LDS Scripture Stories

Saturday, June 16, 2012

During
family scripture study, my oldest daughter (age 7) Ashlee was reading
so well that I told her she should also start reading daily on her own
and that it was important to read on a daily basis. Well, my four year
old son felt left out but can't read well enough to read on his own.
That is how this app came about. After creating it for him, he was
able to launch and start watching chapters without any instruction. In
fact he went through 13 chapters on his own in one sitting! I thought
this app might be useful for others, so I added multiple language
support and tried to make it as robust as possible.

Features:

Download videos for offline viewing (e.g. road trip)

Multiple language support:

Deutsch,

Español,

Français,

Italiano,

Português,

Русский,

國語,

廣東話,

日本語,

한국어

MP4 and WMV formats (provided by lds.org)

All of the content is streamed from lds.org. I do not
redistribute any of the content. The app simply behaves like a dedicated
web browser that serves only the scripture stories from lds.org

As
you can see from how this app came about; that is the intent of this
app: To help our children learn about the gospel and to gain a testimony
of their own. I am a big believer in daily scripture study; it is how
my testimony started. I know the Book of Mormon is true. It is my
testimony that there is no other way to come closer to God than by
faithfully studying the Book of Mormon (and other scriptures) on a daily
basis. If you don't want to worry about your children growing up to be
wonderful, faithful, church-attending people; teach them to study the
scriptures starting at a young age.

How can I help?

Feedback. Feedback is always appreciated! How can it be improved? What is missing? etc... Post a comment below.

Contribute! The code is open-source and hosted on github.

Donate! The apps will forever be free. My wife was not
thrilled to find out that it costs an annual $100 to just post a free
app on the Amazon Marketplace (i.e. for the kindle fire). So any donations are appreciated.